Andrea Pericu

ANDREA PERICU is one of the founding partners of Bettini Formigaro Pericu and works in both the Genoa and Milan offices.

He has acquired extensive experience in commercial and administrative law, focusing in particular on industrial sectors that require cross-disciplinary expertise as they involve private and public law issues.

He has represented a number of clients in privatisations, in M&A transactions and extraordinary financing involving public companies, including listing procedures, IPOs and other extraordinary operations.

He represents some of the major associations of companies operating in the public utilities and procurement sectors and has offered legal advice in transactions for port and airport facilities and infrastructures in general.

Mr Pericu has also provided legal assistance to private equity funds and other financial intermediaries, both in the raising phase, in authorisation procedures and in investment transactions. He regularly advises domestic and international companies in all aspects of corporate governance and compliance in regulated markets and has built up significant expertise in corporate litigation. 

He is professor of Commercial Law, Banking and other Financial Intermediaries Law at the University of Genoa (Department of Law). He has published extensively on regulation of public services and utilities (including the energy & gas sector), publicly-owned corporations, corporate law, financial services, banking and privatizations and tender procedures.  

In 2001 he published a book entitled “Corporations and Public Service Obligations” (Impresa e obblighi di servizio pubblico, Giuffrè ed., Milan), which has become a key reference source for academic work on public utilities and utility companies. He is regularly invited to participate in seminars and conferences on the subjects covered by his academic research.

In 1991, he worked as visiting foreign attorney in a prestigious English law firm based in London.

In 1993, he obtained a Master of Law (LL.M.) in Corporate Law at the University College of London. In 2000, he obtained a Ph.D at the University of Sassari; in 2001, he became a research fellow in Commercial Law at the University of Genoa and then went on to become an Associate Professor in Economic Law at the same University.

In 2013 he became a member of the Milan Board of Bank & Finance Arbitration set up by Banca d’Italia. He is a member of the directing editors committee of the Regulation Journal (“Rivista della Regolazione”) published by the Italian law editor Giappichelli.

He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Genoa in 1992, and has been a member of the Genoa Bar Association since 1995.

Foreign languages: English and French.

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